1 Peter 4:7
“But the ende of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober and watch vnto prayer.”
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1 Peter 4:7 Context
5Who shal giue accompt to him that is ready to iudge the quicke & the dead. 6For, for this cause was the Gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might bee iudged according to men in the flesh, but liue according to God in the spirit. 7But the ende of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober and watch vnto prayer. 8And aboue all things haue feruent charitie among your selues: for charity shall couer the multitude of sinnes. 9Use hospitalitie one to another without grudging.
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Other Translations for 1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
- King James Version
The end of all things is near; therefore, be of sound judgment and sober {spirit} for the purpose of prayer.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore of sound mind, and be sober unto prayer:
- American Standard Version (1901)
But the end of all things is near: so be serious in your behaviour and keep on the watch with prayer;
- Basic English Bible
But the end of all things is drawn nigh: be sober therefore, and be watchful unto prayers;
- Darby Bible
But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch to prayer.
- Webster's Bible
But the end of all things is now close at hand: therefore be sober-minded and temperate, so that you may give yourselves to prayer.
- Weymouth Bible
But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
- World English Bible
For the ende of alle thingis schal neiye. Therfor be ye prudent, and wake ye in preyeris;
- Wycliffe Bible
And of all things the end hath come nigh; be sober-minded, then, and watch unto the prayers,
- Youngs Literal Bible
Wesley's Notes for 1 Peter 4:7
4:7 But the end of all things - And so of their wrongs, and your sufferings. Is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer - Temperance helps watchfulness, and both of them help prayer. Watch, that ye may pray; and pray, that ye may watch.
People's Bible Notes for 1 Peter 4:7
1Pe 4:7 The end of all things is at hand. The end of Jerusalem was not far off, and it does not seem that it was given to Peter to distinguish clearly between that and the end of all things, which truly draweth near. Watch to prayer. Compare 1Th 5:6,8 Mt 24:42.